ENGLISH
PAPER - II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective
type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory. Answers are marked in bold.
1.
Who,
among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa
at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience ?
(1) John Locke (2) John Wesley (3) Isaac Watts (4) Denis Diderot
2.
Which
of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance
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(1) Walter Pater (2) Oscar Wilde (3) Thomas Carlyle (4) John Ruskin
3.
Whom
does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen’s novels ?
(1) Knightley (2) Darcy (3)
Collins (4)
Mr. Martin
4.
A
poet once referred to an old man as “A tattered coat upon a stick”. That is an
example of
__________.
(1) Metonymy (2) Sarcasm (3) Simile (4)
Metaphor
5.
Which
of these is NOT a pastoral elegy ?
(1) Lycidas (2)
In Memoriam (3)
Thyrsis (4)
Adonais
6.
In
Beckett’s Waiting for Godot the characters often use dislocated,
repetitious and cliched speech primarily to :
(1) illustrate the essentially illogical,
purposeless nature of the human condition
(2) re-create the workings of the
subconscious
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and
wisdom of modern, self-professed intellectuals
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical
plots
7.
Which
of the following sixteenth-century poets was NOT a courtier ?
(1)
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George Puttenham
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(2)
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Philip Sidney
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(3)
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Walter Raleigh
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(4)
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Thomas Wyatt
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8.
Patrick
White published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras of pioneering and
exploration in Australian history an epic, ironic and psychological dimension.
The novels are :
(a) A Fringe of Leaves
(b) The Tree of Man
(c) Voss
(d) The Aunt’s Story
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b) (2) (b) and (c) (3) (c) and (a) (4)
(c) and (d)
9.
In
which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of
the ‘Carnivalesque’ ?
(1) “Discourse in the novel”
(2) Dialogic Imagination
(3) Rabelais and his world
(4) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope
in the Novel”
10. Match the columns :
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(Author)
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(Text)
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(a)
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Sebastian Faulks
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(i)
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Amsterdam
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(b)
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Peter Ackroyd
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(ii)
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Changing Places
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(c)
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Ian McEwan
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(iii)
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Hawksmoor
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(d)
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David Lodge
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(iv)
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Birdsong
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Codes :
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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(1)
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(i)
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(ii)
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(iii)
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(iv)
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(2)
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(ii)
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(iii)
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(i)
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(iv)
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(3)
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(iv)
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(iii)
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(i)
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(ii)
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(4) (iii)
(iv) (ii) (i)
11. In New Criticism, the key term
‘tension’ is associated with :John Crow
(1)
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Cleanth Brooks
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(2)
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Ransom
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(3)
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Austin Warren
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(4)
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Allen Tate
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12. While compiling what sort of book did
Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or Virtue
Rewarded ?
(1) an account of the plague in London
(2) an instruction manual for manners
(3) a book of devotion
(4) a book of model letters
13. Who among the war Poets gained
notoriety in 1917, when disenchanted with the way the war was being conducted
he drafted his letter of “wilful defiance of the military authority” which
captured attention in the House of Commons, and was forcibly admitted to the
war hospital at Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being court-martialled ?
(1)
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Rupert Brooke
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(2)
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Sassoon
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(3)
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Wilfred Owen
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(4)
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Isaac Rosenberg
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14. If you cannot understand an argument
and remark, “It’s Greek to me”, you are
quoting
__________.
(1)
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John Milton
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(2)
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Samuel Johnson
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(3)
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William Shakespeare
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(4)
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John Donne
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15. Which of the following works did
Walter Scott compile ?
(1)
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel
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(2)
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Marmion
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(3)
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Ivanhoe
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(4)
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The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border
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16. Which of the
following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka ?
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(1)
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Home and Exile
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(2)
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Kongi’s Harvest
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(3)
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The interpreters
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(4)
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The Swamp Dwellers
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17. In the Defense of Poesy Sidney
says : “ Now as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as right and in
arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who
seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of
virtue”. Which of the following forms of poesy offers a foil that helps us
perceive the beauty of virtue ?
(1) Pastorals (2) Parody (3)
Comedy (4)
Tragedy
18. John Dryden described a major English
poet as “a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines .....”
Identify him :
(1)
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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(2)
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John Gower
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(3)
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George Herbert
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(4)
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Robert Herrick
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19. In a remarkably proleptic insight, a
critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict Anderson’s definition of the
nation as “an imagined political community” :
“Most
novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional
method – an underlying stance and approach – that a novelist offers to show
people and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways”.
Name
the critic and the reference :
(1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in
America
(2) Raymond Williams, The country and
the city
(3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern
Temper
(4) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a
Definition of culture
20. “Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s
fair; Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny”. The above lines are
characterized by :
(1)
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circumlocution
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(2)
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antithesis
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(3)
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anticlimax
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(4)
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bathos
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21. In his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Pope
tells us that as a poet he had benefited from “This saving counsel, ‘keep your
piece nine years’” – which enjoins on writer’s patience and great care before
they rush to print. Whose “counsel” is Pope referring to ?
(1)
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Longinus’s in On the Sublime
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(2)
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Horace’s in Ars Poetica
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(3)
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Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
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(4)
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Aristotle’s Poetics
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22. An English architect and
stage-designer – Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court to design masques –
contributed significantly to the spectacular theatre which succeeded the
commonwealth after his death – the first designer to use revolving screens to
indicate scene-changes on the English stage.
Identify
this artist/designer.
(1)
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Henry Irving
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(2)
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Inigo Jones
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(3)
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Henry Arthur Jones
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(4)
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William Inge
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23. __________ may be defined as any
departure from the rules of pronunciation or diction, for the sake of rhyme or
metre, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.
(1)
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Poetic
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license
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(2)
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Poetic
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justice
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(3)
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Poetic
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deviance
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(4)
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Poetic
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diction
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24. That Humanities and the sciences were
in fact “two cultures” was suggested by __________.
(1) Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures
on poetry
(2) W.H. Anden in his oxford lectures on
poetry
(3) F.R. Leavis in his book, The Great
Tradition
(4) C.P. Snow in his Rede lecture
25. Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the
Monk :
(1) is too concerned with courtesy and
matters of etiquette
(2) cheats the poor peasants by selling
them false religious relics
(3) courts favour of wealthy people but
spends no time with poor people
(4) spends too much time hunting and too
little time on religious duty
26. Divided into three sections this ground-breaking
work published in 1953 uses as the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening
of a fourteen-year-old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church.
Identify the work.
(1) Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Are
Watching God
(2) James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the
Mountain
(3) Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
(4) Richard Wright’s Native Son
27. Chartism, a political movement that
took its name from the People’s Charter had six points. Identify the one point
on the following list that was NOT Chartist :
(a) universal manhood sufferage
(b) equal electoral districts
(c) comprehensive insurance scheme for
labour
(d) vote by secret ballot
(e) payment of MPs
(f)
no
property qualifications for MPs
(g) Annual parliaments
Codes :
(1) (e) (2)
(g) (3)
(c) (4)
(d)
28*. These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have
been to me As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye...
(“Tintern
Abbey Lines”)
Which of the following rhetorical
terms best suits these lines ?
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(1)
Apostrophe
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(2) Litotes
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(3) Hyperbole
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(4) Catachresis
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29. The ‘monster’ in Frankenstein
is NOT responsible for the death of :
(1)
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Clerval
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(2)
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Justine
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(3)
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Elizabeth
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(4)
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Alphonse Frankenstein
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30. Which of the following plays of
William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in T.S. Eliot’s The
Waste Land ?
(1) Hamlet (2)
King Lear (3)
Coriolanus (4)
The Tempest
31. Identify the group below which is
known as the “Sons of Ben”.
(1) Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William
Macready, Matheson, Lang
(2) John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester,
Samuel Butler
(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett,
Thomas Randolph
(4) William Holman Hunt, John E. Millais,
D.G. Rossetti, William Morris
32. Christopher Marlowe was one of the
first major writers to affirm what can be identified as a clearly homosexual
sensibility. Which drama of his deals with it ?
(1)
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Edward II
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(2)
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The Jew of Malta
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(3)
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Doctor Faustus
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(4)
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Dido, Queen of
Carthage
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33. “When true silence falls we are still
left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say
that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness”.
Identify
the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.
(1)
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Samuel Beckett
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(2)
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Harold Pinter
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(3)
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Luigi Pirandello
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(4)
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Joe Orton
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34. The determining feature of syllabic
verse is neither __________ nor __________ but the number of syllables in a
line.
(1)
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number, numbers
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(2)
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sounds, silences
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(3)
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stress, quantity
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(4)
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gists, piths
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35. In Robert Browning’s dramatic
monologue, which painter does Andrea del Sarto compare himself to ? What does
he find lacking in his own work in comparison ?
(1) Fra Lippo Lippi – humour
(2) Raphael – Soul
(3) Leonardo da Vinci – Verisimilitude
(4) Botticelli – liveliness
36. In which of the following does Robert
Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an idolatry to be suppressed by a
civilizing protestant form of colonialism ?
(1)
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“Thalaba”
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(2)
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The Curse of Kehama
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(3)
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“Pitying the wolves”
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(4)
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Country Horrors !
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37. The
following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English :
“I
kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. ‘I’ve got
out at last’, said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of
the papers, so you can’t put me back !”
Now why should that man have fainted ? But he did, and
right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time !”
(1) Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)
(2) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte P.Gilman)
(3) Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plalth)
(4) Where Are You Going, Where Have You
Been ? (Joyce C. Oates)
38. Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a
work based on the life of an Afro-American writer which was later published as
:
(1) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(2) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(3) Cry, The Beloved Country
(4) Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass
39. Samuel Johnson’s “Dissertation upon
Poetry” is part of which of his following works ?
(1) the final section of his preface to
Shakespeare
(2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets
(4) one of his Rambler essays
40. A new series called “New Accents” was
launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title to be published in the series was
:
(1) Deconstruction : Theory and Practice
(2) Formalism and Marxism
(3) Structuralism and Semiotics
(4) Making and Difference : Feminist
Literary criticism
41. “Humble and rustic life was generally
chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a
better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint,
and speak a plainer and more emphatic language... The language, too, of these
men has been adopted... because such men hourly communicate with the best
objects from which the best part of language is originally derived”. Which of
the following groups of the author’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1800)
contradict this statement in the “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”, as pointed
out by S.T. Coleridge ?
(1) “Ode on the Intimations of
Immortality”, Prelude.
(2) The Tasks, Seasons.
(3) “Michael”, “Ruth”, “The Brothers”.
(4) “Elegy Written in a country
churchyard”, “Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands”.
42. A remarkable novelist of the English
Modernist phase who wrote a short book on what the novel is (and why it
matters) remarked, “Oh dear, yes - the novel tells a story”. Identify the
novelist :
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) James Joyce (3)
E.M. Forster (4)
D.H. Lawrence
43.
What is the name of the angel, who, of
those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared to protest against his impious
doctrine and left his company to return to God (Paradise Lost, Book V) ?
(1) Michael (2) Abdiel (3)
Uriel (4)
Gabriel
44. Which of the following is NOT a
school associated with Romantic period in English literature ?
(1)
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The Cockney School
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(2)
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The Fireside School
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(3)
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The Lake School
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(4)
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The Satanic School
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45. The idea of “new ethnicities” in
post-war Britain was advanced by __________.
(1)
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Donald Hall
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(2)
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Stuart Hall
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(3)
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Paul Gilroy
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(4)
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Hanif Kureishi
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46. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
begins in a piece of dialogue :
“Yes, of
course, if it’s fine tomorrow”, said Mrs. Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up
with lark”, she added.
Present among the listeners of her remark is __________.
(1) her father
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(2) her nephew
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(3) her son
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(4) her driver
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47. Match the phrase with character :
(a)
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“motiveless malignity”
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(i)
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Macbeth
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(b)
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“Reason in Madness”
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(ii)
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Hamlet
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(c)
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“Supp’d full of horrors”
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(iii)
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Lear
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(d)
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“To be, or not to be”
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(iv)
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Iago
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Codes :
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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(1)
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(iii)
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(ii)
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(iv)
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(2)
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(iv)
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(ii)
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(iii)
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(iii)
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(iii)
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48. In Tristram Shandy the
narrator’s presentation of his life and opinions is __________.
(1) linear (2) digressive (3)
chronological (4) rounded
49. The famous sonnet of John Milton
beginning “When I consider how my light is spent...” ends with __________.
(1) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind
me creeps a groan or sigh
(2) They also serve who only stand and
wait
(3) And - which is more - you’ll be a Man,
my son !
(4) And bless him for the sake of him
that’s gone
50. Her vision was of several caves. She
saw herself in one, and she was also outside it, watching its entrance, for
Aziz to pass in. She failed to locate him. It was the doubt that had often
visited her, but solid and attractive, like the hills. “I am not –” speech was
more difficult than vision. “I am not quite sure”.
The above
extract from A Passage to India is about Adela’s cave experience. Who is
questioning Adela ?
(1) Mrs. Moore (2) Mr. McBryde
(3) Fielding (4)
Ronney Heaslop
Note: The answers are marked by reference, kindly clarify and analyse yourself to make sure.
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